Intel has during the whole year talked about their biggest technological leap in 40 years and now are the first products available. The new Penry-processor is supposed to be 50% faster in graphics but still have a smaller electricity-Consumption.

During this sunday Intel presented the new platform that had the codename Penryn and told us that 40 suppliers of servers will have their Xeon 5400 processor this fall.

This is a processor with four cores and with 45-nanometerstechnology which will reduce the electricity needed for it. The most powerful version will only take 120W and by the year ending will their laptop-version be released and that processor will only need 25W compared to earlier models that need about 35W.

In the benchmarks that have been done Intel has shown improvements in 40-60% in graphics and that is pretty much a result of the increased cache-memories. Another effect of this will be that virtual servers will be about 75% faster.

In november Intel will release twelve new Xeon 5400-processors where the clock-frequency is 2-3,2GHz and having a cache-memory of 12MB. Next month three more Xeon 5200-processors with dual cores will be released with a clock-frequency of 3,4ghz and 6MB in cache-memory. During the first quarter of the next year will the laptop versions “Core 3 Extreme” and “Core 2 Duo” be released.

The new generation of processors are made of a number of new materials that means that they can have a decent amount of more transistors on the same space as before. In a processor with four cores you can now have 840 millions of transistors compared to Intels first processor, 4004 (1971), which only had 2000 transistors.